Clerics in Dark Sun follow elemental forces instead of deities. From this allegiance, they receive spells divided into Elemental Spheres. They also receive more general cleric spells (grouped under the Sphere of the Cosmos) but it is their elemental spells that give Dark Sun clerics their unique flavour.

In the original 2e version of Dark Sun, however, the elemental spell lists were a little uneven – there weren’t always very many spells at each level and some levels didn’t have any spells at all! In the original Dark Sun Boxed Set, for example, there are no 1st-level Elemental Air spells, no 4th-level Elemental Earth spells, and no 7th-level Elemental Water spells. Later Dark Sun products improved this situation somewhat, and enterprising DMs could always find spells from other sources, but it remained somewhat uneven.

Today’s blog fleshes out the spell lists for Dark Sun elemental clerics – including paraelemental clerics – and provides a complete set of Dark Sun-specific cleric spells in a pdf at the end of the blog. By design, not every Sphere has the same number of spells at each level – Elemental Rain and Elemental Water generally have fewer spells than other Spheres, to represent the desolate nature of Athas. And there could probably be a couple more spells in the Elemental Sun Sphere, to be honest. But these lists should give you a solid foundation to build on for your own Dark Sun games.

Here are the spell lists for the four main elements. For the Sphere of the Cosmos, the paraelements and the spell descriptions, please see the attached pdf.

Sphere of Air

First Level
Create Holy Element*
Curse of Tongues*
Deep Breath*
Elemental Bonding*
Feather Fall†
Feather Flight*

Second Level
Channel Stench*
Coat of Mist*
Dust Devil
Merciful Shadows*
Slave Scent*
Steal Breath*
Whispers*
Winds of Change*

Third Level
Air Lens*
Call Lightning
Conjure Lesser Elemental*
Create Smoke*
Gust of Wind†
Wind Wall†

Fourth Level
Control Temperature, 10’ Radius
Chimes of Finding*
Defiler Scent*
Fly†
Protection from Gas, 5’ Radius*
Protection from Weather*

Fifth Level
Air Walk
Cloud of Purification*
Conjure Elemental*
Control Winds
Elemental Forbiddance*
Good Weather*
Sands of Time*
Sandstorm*

Sixth Level
Aerial Servant
Isolate Templar*
Mark of the Hunted*
Silt Tides*
Watchful Eyes*
Weather Summoning

Seventh Level
Conjure Greater Elemental*
Control Weather
Create Shrine*
Initiation*
Sirocco*
Silt Cyclone*
Wind Walk

Sphere of Earth

First Level
Boneflint*
Create Holy Element*
Elemental Bonding*
Fist of Stone*
Fossilisation*
Magical Stone

Second Level
Boneiron*
Burrow*
Earthen Grasp*
Fool’s Gold†*
Footsteps of the Quarry*
Pit*
Soften Earth and Stone*

Third Level
Bramblestaff*
Conjure Lesser Elemental*
Curse of the Black Sand*
Meld Into Stone
Oil Spray*
Sand Spray*
Stone Shape
Stoneiron*

Fourth Level
Infestation*
Return to the Earth*
Sand Warriors*
Spawn Song*
Stone of Sharpening*
Thorns of Binding*
Whirlpool of Doom*
Woodiron*

Fifth Level
Conjure Elemental*
Crumble*
Elemental Forbiddance*
Ironskin*
Rejuvenate*
Spike Stones
Transmute Rock to Mud
Tree Growth*

Sixth Level
Heartseeker*
Isolate Templar*
Sand Blade*
Silt Tides*
Stone Tell
Transmute Water to Dust*

Seventh Level
Animate Rock
Conjure Greater Elemental*
Create Shrine*
Glass Storm*
Earthquake
Initiation*
Silt Cyclone*
Transmute Metal to Wood

Sphere of Fire

First Level
Create Holy Element*
Elemental Bonding*
Endure Heat/Endure Cold
Faerie Fire
Fire Burst*
Log of Everburning**

Second Level
Clues of Ash*
Fire Trap
Flame Blade
Heat Metal
Produce Flame
Resist Fire/Resist Cold

Third Level
Conjure Lesser Elemental*
Create Smoke*
Flame Walk
Heat Exhaustion*
Protection from Fire
Pyrotechnics

Fourth Level
Channel Flame*
Everlasting Fire*
Fire Lance*
Fire Shield†
Fire Wake*
Produce Fire

Fifth Level
Conjure Elemental*
Elemental Forbiddance*
Flame Harvest*
Flame Strike
Protection from Fire, 15’ Radius†
Wall of Fire

Sixth Level
Isolate Templar*
Fiery Constrictor*
Fire Seeds
Spirit of Flame*
Sunstroke*
Watchfire*

Seventh Level
Chariot of Sustarre
Conjure Greater Elemental*
Create Shrine*
Fire Storm
Initiation*
Proof against Fire*

Sphere of Water

First Level
Create Holy Element*
Create Water*
Elemental Bonding*
Purify Food and Drink

Second Level
Clear Water*
Coat of Mist*
Crystallise*
Speak with Water*
Water Witch*

Third Level
Bramblestaff*
Circle of Life*
Conjure Lesser Elemental*
Create Food and Water*
Water Breathing
Water Walk

Fourth Level
Acid Rain*
Curse of the Choking Sands*
Lower Water
Lungs of Water*
Protection from Weather*
Reflecting Pool
Soothe*
Thorns of Binding*
Water Trap*

Fifth Level
Cloud of Purification*
Conjure Elemental*
Crumble*
Elemental Forbiddance*
Good Weather*
Rejuvenate*
Sands of Time*

Sixth Level
Heartseeker*
Isolate Templar*
Part Water
Transmute Water to Dust*
Waters of Life*

Seventh Level
Conjure Greater Elemental*
Create Shrine*
Dehydrate*
Initiation*
Water Form*

• denotes a new or changed spell, detailed in the attached pdf. ** denotes a spell from the Tome of Magic. † denotes a wizard spell.